Month: June 2022

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court on Thursday upheld Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction and 23-year…

By FREIDA FRISARO Assocaited Press MIAMI (AP) — A loggerhead turtle whose left fin was destroyed in a shark attack is rehabbing at Zoo…

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court is to rule on efforts to stop British oil giant Shell from…

NEW YORK (AP) — “This is Us” star Chrissy Metz is teaming with partner Bradley Collins on a children’s book about parenting and religious…

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Brittney Griner can’t play with her WNBA colleagues. She can’t call them, either. But she can write. In one…

BOSTON (AP) — Two manholes exploded in downtown Boston on Thursday morning, shattering a window, forcing the evacuation of two buildings and…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Authorities in Virginia say search teams have found the body of one of two women missing for days after a dozen people on…

By SALLY HO AND GARANCE BURKE Associated Press Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are…

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The European Commission chief says the disbursement of pandemic recovery funds to Poland depends on the government’s…

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge has declined to put a former Detroit police chief on the Republican ballot for Michigan…

By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press POTASHNYA, Ukraine (AP) — In 100 days of war in Ukraine, countless lives have been…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man charged with carrying out a racist mass shooting that killed 10 people at a…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Since last week’s shooting in Uvalde, Texas, one Associated Press writer has, like so many…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s health minister says the country has marked its first day after more than two years without a single COVID-19 death.…

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston subway system is experiencing service disruptions after a crash the night before that sent four employees of the…

By PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — 2022 is expected to be the best summer job market for teens in 15 years.…

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Long before Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary won an Oscar for co-writing “Pulp Fiction,” they were just a couple…

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Avenatti was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for…

By BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — A speller has been reinstated into the Scripps National Spelling Bee field after successfully…

PRAGUE (AP) — A massive fire in a nursing home for Alzheimer patients in the Czech Republic has left two people dead and injured more than 50…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans applied for jobless aid last week with the number of Americans collecting…

By DEEPA BHARATH of The Associated Press and ADELLE BANKS of Religion News Service Associated Press About two years ago, when coronavirus cases began…

By LLAZAR SEMINI Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An official funeral ceremony has been held in Albania for former President Bujar Nishani,…

By SEAN MURPHY, JILL BLEED and KATHLEEN FOODY Associated Press A gunman who killed his surgeon and three other people at a Tulsa medical office…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have killed a suspected militant and captured another after a brief gunbattle with rebels aligned with…

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — Shanghai’s landmark old city garden has sprung back to life as residents took…

By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is saying thank you to the people…

Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The OPEC oil cartel and allied producing countries including Russia will raise production by 648,000 barrels per day…

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers say the country’s parliament will set up a commission of inquiry into last year’s evacuation mission from…

By NOHA ELHENNAWY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations says that Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a nationwide truce for…